-By Dan Scott
Before the founding of the Republic, the colonies were a source of income to the British Empire. Besides the profitable trade made by the various investment houses of England, the Empire shared in that trade via taxation. The principle interest of the colonies to the Empire was pure and simple how much money could be heaped into the Treasury. Nationalism had little to do with the expansion of the British Empire, this was the day of Mercantilism where wealth was gained in a zero sum game by one party at the expense of another. Nationalism was merely an excuse to get the peons to go along with the game. The practice of Mercantilism is where Colonialism got it’s bad name. As in all things, the point of amassing great wealth was not just for creature comforts but also for status. The Rulers of the Empire wore their wealth in their jewelry and crowns, the multiple castles and palaces and the size of their military to establish their status in the world. With status comes power, the point of power is the exercise thereof.
The Empire taxed all trade to and from the colonies to fill their coffers. When the Royalty of Europe were fighting amongst themselves, those coffers needed substantial sums and the colonies were forced to pay ever higher taxes to accommodate that need. Thus set the stage for the Boston Tea Party. The colonists had this notion that the point of taxation was for local use on things such as building roads, bridges, townhalls, schools, to employ the sheriffs and judges to keep order, etc. The colonists weren’t interested in funding some war 3000 miles away, they weren’t interested in status, theirs was a parochial view of government. In a live and let live atmosphere, raising taxes for things that didn’t concern them was an abuse as they didn’t have a say in those decisions leading to all the spending from the Treasury. It’s one thing to pay a tax when you may derive some benefit down the road, it is quite another thing to pay ever higher taxes because someone else is making the spending decision relegating you to being the piggybank with no say in the matter. The cry from the colonists was Taxation without Representation! If they were to pay taxes, they believed they had at least a right to participate in the decisions on why and how that money was to be spent. When the Empire refused to have colonial representation in Parliament, they paved the way to the US Revolution.
Today, we have a new spin on Taxation without Representation. That spin is on spending taxes on people who aren’t citizens, namely the illegal immigrants who are a cost burden on our society. We spend literally billions upon billions of dollars annually due to their presence in the US. A cost burden that we did not agree to nor have those politicians who enable, condone and support such things brought up these costs as a campaign issue to debate. Has any politician literally come out and said they support spending billions of dollars on illegal aliens? Has any politician supporting illegal immigration by enabling or condoning come clean on the cost the taxpayers are being asked to pay?
The entire illegal immigration debate by supporters has been framed in terms of racism but not on what we are expected to pay for their feel good policy. Let’s see, we have Social Security going bust, we have politicians wanting to give illegals credit for Social Security using stolen IDs to the tune of some $189 billion a year, we are spending billions upon billions of dollars on social programs because of so called poverty, we have 7.5 million unemployed people who need jobs precisely because illegals took them, depressing the low end wages of our unskilled labor force by glutting the market, illegals skipping out on hospital bills leaving us to pay (Medicaid picks up the tab), illegals are in our schools forcing up our property taxes to pay for their schooling, they commit significant amounts of crime and cost us billions to incarcerate them. By allowing illegals to displace and depress the low wage market, those unskilled US Citizens are forced to bear the brunt of the burden which in turns transfers to the taxpayer to make up the financial difference. If these illegals weren’t here many of the Social Programs we pay for would be at virtually zero spending levels.
But all we hear from illegal immigration supporters is how we benefit from cheaper vegetables and fruit, lawn service or maid service and we should be ashamed of ourselves for not being generous. On the contrary, if they were so concerned about the welfare of people in poverty, then they wouldn’t focus on the almost 10% of the Mexican population that voted with their feet to escape the failed economic policies of their country and those from other countries south of the border by neglecting those left behind. This is called false charity. Instead, they should be demanding the other 90% left behind be given better opportunities by reforming their respective country’s laws to promote business and end corruption. Illegal immigration supporters have been totally silent on the cause of illegal immigration by blaming the US Taxpayer for being cheap instead of pointing the finger where it should be directed, at the foreign governments who failed in their responsibilities to promote the general welfare for their own citizens. Basically, what illegal immigration supporters are demanding is that we, the Taxpayer, condone and enable the failed economic policies of foreign governments. In short, we, the taxpayer must reward failure by taking in those who want out of that failure. Isn’t it just a little presumptuous to self righteously demand we pay for the failure of others and then get uppity because we balk at the cost of this false charity?
So let’s be clear about the costs of 12 to 20 million illegal immigrants that we, the Taxpayer, are supposed to pay as demanded by the bleeding heart liberals who choose to ignore the 90% of the problem:
Rough Estimate in BILLIONS annually from Federal, State and Local budgets and you the citizen:
$ 88 Unemployment Insurance for 7.5 million American Citizens
$ 49 ID theft
$ 3 Incarceration of 55,000+ illegals for various crimes (x $50k/yr housing them)
$ 29 Property Taxes used to educate children of illegals
$ 196 Medicaid
$ 42 Earned Income Credit
$ 85 Food Stamps
$ 16 TANF
$ 57 HOC, subsidized housing for the poor
$ 565 Billion a year, just some of the demands upon the Taxpayer
While you’re contemplating that $565 billion a year, consider that our pension fund, the Social Security Trust Fund is being raided year after year by these status seeking politicians to fund this false charity. Who will be expected to pay those funds back? Certain status seeking politicians are insisting on us, the Taxpayer, to pay the bills of those who are NOT citizens and NOT playing by the rules just so they can feel good about themselves and maintain their status. The MSM and liberal Democrats dare to talk to us about a TAX INCREASE when they are the ones who made the decisions to spend OUR money in a manner AGAINST OUR WISHES and didn’t even bother to ask if they could do so in the first place. It seems their colonialist attitude toward the Taxpayer justifies their desire to fill the coffers yet again. What are you going to do about it? Maybe it’s time to have another Tea Party?
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Dan Scott calls himself a “Member of the Global Capitalist Cabal preaching Capitalism and personal responsibility as the economic solution to world poverty.” He is also a member of the 14th Amendment Society — victimhood is a liberal code word for denying the civil rights of others. He is also a proud member of the Global Warming Denier Cabal, insisting that facts not agendas determine the truth.
Dan can be seen on the web at http://www.geocities.com/fightbigotry2002/ as well as http://www.geocities.com/dscott8186/saidwebpage.htm, And can be reached for comments at dscott8186@yahoo.com.